Cory Booker On Critics Of His DNC Speech: ‘That’s A Call We Need Now’

"The call of Maya Angelou really speaks to that very essence of America. That’s a call we need now."

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker may have brought the Wells Fargo arena floor to its feet during a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention Monday – a speech that invoked the power of Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” poem and scrutinized Donald Trump’s business record – but not everyone was thrilled.

“We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America’s greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty,” Booker said to the crowd.

“America, we will rise.”

Shortly after, Trump took to Twitter with an attack of his own:

If Cory Booker is the future of the Democratic Party, they have no future! I know more about Cory than he knows about himself.